Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Composing a Life
Book Review: Hopelessly out of date
Summary: 1 Stars
This book was, I'm sure, timely 20 years ago, but you will struggle to get anything out of it this day in age. Plus, the author states in the introduction that she is not bitter about her time at Amherst, but the text of the book makes her seem extremely bitter.Book Review: Insightful Words
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't wait to read this book. I just got it in the mail and was sitting in class and read about 10 pages before I realized I should be paying attention to the professor. I think it's going to be one of my all-time favorites.Book Review: Inviting Life to Get in the Way
Summary: 4 Stars
How refreshing - a book about 5 entrepreneurial women who had 'normal' lives - marriages, children, divorce, earning an advanced degree in their 40's! This is real life - and each of the stars in this book invited life to get in the way rather than lamenting how life's events prohibited achievement of dreams, goals and aspirations.
A great read for every woman contemplating her future!
Susan Bock
Business Coach
Susan Bock Solutions
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Book Review: Limited Scope, Limited Results
Summary: 3 Stars
This book examines the lives of five of the author's friends, all highly educated, high-achieveing women from the East Coast who went through the normal ups and downs of life that the rest of us share. It is well written, but the focus is so tight--how many of us get entangled with academic politics at elite Eastern colleges?--that is tells more about the writer and her choice of similar friends than about the rest of us. It does a fine job of focusing on issues of gender and race of 20 years ago.Book Review: Subtly inspirational.
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't remember why I investigated, ordered and then read this book other than it was written by Margaret Mead's daughter and I wanted to find out what the woman was like personally. What I found when I read the book was quite different. I felt such affinity with much that was presented about the lives of the women that I recommended the work to a friend. It is interesting that we both highlighted an event in Mary Bateson's life that we both had experienced in similar intensity. Bateson's candid verbalisation of the effect of the experience has helped to heal the wounds in both my friend and myself.